Numbers 17:2
Say to the children of Israel that they are to give you rods, one for every family, for every chief, the head of his father's house, making twelve rods; let every man's name be placed on his rod.
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Numbers 17:2
Say to the children of Israel that they are to give you rods, one for every family, for every chief, the head of his father's house, making twelve rods; let every man's name be placed on his rod.
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Genesis 49:10
The rod of authority will not be taken from Judah, and he will not be without a law-giver, till he comes who has the right to it, and the peoples will put themselves under his rule.
Exodus 4:2
And the Lord said to him, What is that in your hand? And he said, A rod.
Exodus 4:17
And take in your hand this rod with which you will do the signs.
Psalms 125:3
For the rod of sinners will not be resting on the heritage of the upright; so that the upright may not put out their hands to evil.
Jeremiah 48:17
All you who are round about him, give signs of grief for him, and all you who have knowledge of his name, say, How is the strong rod broken, even the beautiful branch!
Ezekiel 19:14
And fire has gone out from her rod, causing the destruction of her branches, so that there is no strong rod in her to be the ruler's rod of authority. This is a song of grief, and it was for a song of grief.
Ezekiel 21:10
It has been made sharp to give death; it is polished so that it may be like a thunder-flame: ...
Ezekiel 37:17
Then, joining them one to another, make them one stick, so that they may be one in your hand.
Ezekiel 37:18
And when the children of your people say to you, Will you not make clear to us what these things have to do with us?
Ezekiel 37:19
Then say to them, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am taking the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel who are in his company; and I will put it on the stick of Judah and make them one stick, and they will be one in my hand.
Ezekiel 37:20
And the sticks with your writing on them will be in your hand before their eyes.
Micah 7:14
Keep your people safe with your rod, the flock of your heritage, living by themselves in the woods in the middle of Carmel: let them get their food in Bashan and Gilead as in the past.
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Exodus 24:4
Then Moses put down in writing all the words of the Lord, and he got up early in the morning and made an altar at the foot of the mountain, with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.
Exodus 28:21
The jewels are to be twelve in number, for the names of the children of Israel; every jewel having the name of one of the twelve tribes cut on it as on a stamp.
Leviticus 24:5
And take the best meal and make twelve cakes of it, a fifth part of an ephah in every cake.
Numbers 1:5
These are the names of those who are to be your helpers: from Reuben, Elizur, the son of Shedeur;
Joshua 4:2
Take twelve men from the people, a man for every tribe,
Joshua 4:3
And say to them, Take up from the middle of Jordan, from the place where the feet of the priests were resting, twelve stones, and take them over with you and put them down in the place where you take your rest tonight.
Joshua 4:8
So the children of Israel did as Joshua gave them orders, and took twelve stones from the middle of Jordan, as the Lord had said to Joshua, one for every tribe of the children of Israel; these they took across with them to their night's resting-place and put them down there.
Joshua 4:9
And Joshua put up twelve stones in the middle of Jordan, where the feet of the priests who took up the ark of the agreement had been placed: and there they are to this day.
Joshua 4:20
And the twelve stones which they took out of Jordan, Joshua put up in Gilgal.
1 Kings 11:30
And Ahijah took his new robe in his hands, parting it violently into twelve.
Ezra 6:17
And they gave as offerings at the opening of this house of God a hundred oxen, two hundred sheep, four hundred lambs; and for a sin-offering for all Israel, twelve he-goats, being the number of the tribes of Israel.
Luke 22:30
So that you may take food and drink at my table in my kingdom, and be seated like kings, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Revelation 21:14
And the wall of the town had twelve bases, and on them the twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.
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Exodus 28:1
Now let Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, come near from among the children of Israel, so that they may be my priests, even Aaron, and Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, his sons.
Leviticus 8:2
Take Aaron, and his sons with him, and the robes and the holy oil and the ox of the sin-offering and the two male sheep and the basket of unleavened bread;
Numbers 16:3
They came together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, You take overmuch on yourselves, seeing that all the people are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them; why then have you put yourselves in authority over the people of the Lord?
Numbers 16:9
Does it seem only a small thing to you that the God of Israel has made you separate from the rest of Israel, letting you come near himself to do the work of the House of the Lord, and to take your place before the people to do what has to be done for them;
Numbers 16:10
Letting you, and all your brothers the sons of Levi, come near to him? and would you now be priests?
Numbers 16:11
So you and all your band have come together against the Lord; and Aaron, who is he, that you are crying out against him?
Numbers 17:6
So Moses gave these orders to the children of Israel, and all their chiefs gave him rods, one for the head of every family, making twelve rods: and Aaron's rod was among them.
Numbers 17:7
And Moses put the rods before the Lord in the Tent of witness.
Numbers 17:8
Now on the day after, Moses went into the Tent of witness; and he saw that Aaron's rod, the rod of the house of Levi, had put out buds, and was covered with buds and flowers and fruit.
Numbers 17:10
And the Lord said to Moses, Put Aaron's rod back in front of the ark of witness, to be kept for a sign against this false-hearted people, so that you may put a stop to their outcries against me, and death may not overtake them.
Hebrews 5:1
Every high priest who is taken from among men is given his position to take care of the interests of men in those things which have to do with God, so that he may make offerings for sins.
Hebrews 5:2
He is able to have feeling for those who have no knowledge and for those who are wandering from the true way, because he himself is feeble;
Hebrews 5:3
And being feeble, he has to make sin-offerings for himself as well as for the people.
Hebrews 5:4
And no man who is not given authority by God, as Aaron was, takes this honour for himself.
Hebrews 5:5
In the same way Christ did not take for himself the glory of being made a high priest, but was given it by him who said, You are my Son, this day I have given you being:
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Numbers 3:15
Let all the children of Levi be numbered by their families and their fathers' houses; let every male of a month old and over be numbered.
Numbers 3:20
And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites in the order of their fathers' houses.
Numbers 4:38
And those of the sons of Gershon who were numbered by families,
Numbers 4:42
And those of the sons of Merari who were numbered by families, in the order of their fathers' houses,
Numbers 4:46
And all the Levites who were numbered by Moses and Aaron and the chiefs of the people, by families, in the order of their fathers' houses,
2 Chronicles 31:17
And the families of the priests were listed by their fathers' names, but the Levites, of twenty years old and over, were listed in relation to their work in their divisions;
Ezra 2:59
And these were the people who went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer. But having no knowledge of their fathers' families or offspring, it was not certain that they were Israelites;
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Numbers 5:1
And the Lord said to Moses,
Numbers 36:1
Now the heads of the families of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came to Moses, the chiefs and the heads of families of the children of Israel being present,
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Deuteronomy 27:12
These are to take their places on Mount Gerizim for blessing the people when you have gone over Jordan: Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Joseph and Benjamin;
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Deuteronomy 27:13
And these are to be on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
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Deuteronomy 29:10
You have come here today, all of you, before the Lord your God; the heads of your tribes, the overseers, and those who are in authority over you, with all the men of Israel,
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Joshua 7:14
So in the morning you are to come near, tribe by tribe; and the tribe marked out by the Lord is to come near, family by family; and the family marked out by the Lord is to come near, house by house; and the house marked out by the Lord is to come near, man by man.
Joshua 7:15
Then the man who is taken with the cursed thing is to be burned, with everything which is his; because he has gone against the agreement of the Lord and has done an act of shame in Israel.
Joshua 7:16
So Joshua got up early in the morning, and made Israel come before him by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken;
Joshua 7:17
Then he made Judah come forward, and the family of the Zerahites was taken; and he made the family of the Zerahites come forward man by man; and Zabdi was taken;
Joshua 7:18
Then the house of Zabdi came forward man by man, and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.
Joshua 7:19
And Joshua said to Achan, My son, give glory and praise to the Lord, the God of Israel; give me word now of what you have done, and keep nothing back from me.
Joshua 7:20
And Achan, answering, said to Joshua, Truly I have done wrong against the Lord, the God of Israel, and this is what I have done:
Joshua 7:21
When I saw among their goods a fair robe of Babylon and two hundred shekels of silver, and a mass of gold, fifty shekels in weight, I was overcome by desire and took them; and they are put away in the earth in my tent, and the silver is under it.
Joshua 7:22
So Joshua sent men quickly, and looking in his tent, they saw where the robe had been put away secretly with the silver under it.
Joshua 7:23
And they took them from the tent and came back with them to Joshua and the children of Israel, and put them before the Lord.
Joshua 7:24
Then Joshua and all Israel took Achan, the son of Zerah, and the silver and the robe and the mass of gold, and his sons and his daughters and his oxen and his asses and his sheep and his tent and everything he had; and they took them up into the valley of Achor.
Joshua 7:25
And Joshua said, Why have you been a cause of trouble to us? Today the Lord will send trouble on you. And all Israel took part in stoning him; they had him stoned to death and then burned with fire.
Joshua 7:26
And over him they put a great mass of stones, which is there to this day; then the heat of the Lord's wrath was turned away. So that place was named, The Valley of Achor, to this day.
1 Samuel 10:19
But today you are turned away from your God, who himself has been your saviour from all your troubles and sorrows; and you have said to him, Put a king over us. So now, take your places before the Lord by your tribes and by your thousands.
Micah 5:2
And you, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, the least among the families of Judah, out of you one will come to me who is to be ruler in Israel; whose going out has been purposed from time past, from the eternal days.
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2 Chronicles 26:18
And they made protests to Uzziah the king, and said to him, The burning of perfumes, Uzziah, is not your business but that of the priests, the sons of Aaron, who have been made holy for this work: go out of the holy place, for you have done wrong, and it will not be to your honour before God.
2 Chronicles 26:19
Then Uzziah was angry; and he had in his hand a vessel for burning perfume; and while his wrath was bitter against the priests, the mark of the leper's disease came out on his brow, before the eyes of the priests in the house of the Lord by the altar of perfumes.
2 Chronicles 26:20
And Azariah, the chief priest, and all the priests, looking at him, saw the mark of the leper on his brow, and they sent him out quickly and he himself went out straight away, for the Lord's punishment had come on him.
2 Chronicles 26:21
So King Uzziah was a leper till the day of his death, living separately in his private house; for he was cut off from the house of God; and Jotham his son was ruling over his house, judging the people of the land.
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Hebrews 9:4
Having a vessel of gold in it for burning perfumes, and the ark of the agreement, which was covered with gold and which had in it a pot made of gold for the manna, and Aaron's rod which put out buds, and the stones with the writing of the agreement;
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